1
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Rossetti religious context
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Tractarian Christian
Sister was a nun
2
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Rossetti fallen women context
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Worked in St Mary Magdalene Penitentiary
Believed in restoration of spiritual existence before death
3
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Rossetti love context
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Broke off engagement with James Collinson- he converted to Catholicism
Broke off engagement with Charles Cayley- she couldn’t marry him as he was agnostic
She never married
4
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Rossetti’s influence context
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Petrarchan sonnet- Italian sonnet (emotional tension- combines English and Italian sonnets)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti is her brother- founded pre-Raphaelite brotherhood
